Monday afternoon basketball roundup

As always
during basketball season, this Monday is a busy one with new rankings coming out
and weekly awards being distributed. Let's get to the news:

With the men's
team clinching the outright Southeastern Conference title this weekend, it's only
fitting that Kentucky should dominate this week's awards. That's exactly how it
turned out as Anthony Davis earned Player of the Week honors and his roommate
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist is the Freshman of the Week. Davis had a pair of double-doubles
this week, averaging 20.5 points, 11 rebounds, 3.5 blocks and 2 steals.
Kidd-Gilchrist was solid as well, scoring 26 points and grabbing 18 rebounds
total this week.

Bria Goss of
the women's team was also recognized, taking home SEC Freshman of the Week
honors. UK played three games this week in clinching the SEC title and Goss
averaged 11.3 points.

With those
three wins, UK Hoops moved back into the top 10 of the Associated Press Top 25.
Entering this week's SEC Tournament, the Wildcats will be ranked No. 10. UK
opens play in the tournament on Friday at 1 p.m. against the winner of a game
between ninth-seeded Florida and No. 8 seed Auburn in Nashville. The game will be
televised on FSN.

For the
first time this season, UK is the No. 1 overall seed in Joe Lunardi's
Bracketology for ESPN.com. Lunardi has Kentucky heading to Louisville for
second and third round games and Atlanta for the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight.
Other teams of note in UK's bracket are North Carolina (No. 2), Baylor (No. 3),
Louisville (No. 4), Wichita State (No. 5), Murray State (No. 6), Purdue (No. 8)
and Kansas State (No. 9). The top overall seed likely has something to do with
UK's new RPI. Kentucky rose to No. 2 from No. 4 this week with wins over
Mississippi State and Vanderbilt.